Business archive of Albert Jones (Textiles) Ltd and M Challah Export
- Made:
- 1946-01-01-2010-12-31
- maker:
- M Challah Export and Albert Jones (Textiles) Ltd
Business archive relating to Albert Jones (Textiles) Ltd and M Challah Export, consisting of order confirmations; purchase contracts; letters in Arabic with fabric samples attached; bills of lading; shipping particulars; consignment notes; delivery notes; cash books; purchase invoices; sales invoice books; annual reports; copy letter books; example cheque stubs from the Bank of West Africa, 1953-2010 and general correspondence. The archive contains evidence of a textile trader moving to Manchester from Lebanon and establishing a business to export textiles to the Middle East, Africa and South America. The records that cover the period 1970-2010 also show how the company adapted to survive a changing market landscape.
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- Extent:
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105 Items
- Identifier:
- 2023-840
- Access:
- Mainly open access. Some items have restricted access, requiring a Data Protection form to be signed in order to access the material.
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The collection has been artificially arranged into six series to represent the different types of material collected. Within each series, the items have been bundled according to the filing system of the record creators.
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